Escrick is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Escrick

There are great places to visit near Escrick including some great waterfalls, ruins, historic monuments, hiking areas, villages, rivers and streams, towns, caves, limestone pavements, geological features, mountains, cities, historic buildings, hills, castles, country parks, parks, gardens and ancient sites.

Escrick has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.

Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), Trig Point on Warrendale Knotts, and Old Limekiln at Blua Crags are some of Escrick best ruins to visit near Escrick.

There are a several good historic monuments in the Escrick area like Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).

Escrick's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

The area around Escrick boasts some of the best villages including Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, Malham, West Burton, Bainbridge, and Aysgarth.

The area around Escrick boasts some of the best rivers and streams including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.

Escrick's best nearby towns can be found at Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.

Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Janet's Cave, Gaping Gill, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave are some of Escrick best caves to visit near Escrick.

Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement are some of Escrick best limestone pavements to visit near Escrick.

Geological Features to visit near Escrick include Malham Cove, and Brimham Rocks.

Ingleborough is a great place to visit close to Escrick if you like mountains.

Don't miss York, and Ripon's cities if visiting the area around Escrick.

There are a number of historic buildings near Escrick including York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

There are a several good hills in the Escrick area like Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar.

Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle are great places to visit near Escrick if you like castles.

Don't miss Brimham Rocks's country parks if visiting the area around Escrick.

Don't miss Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden's parks if visiting the area around Escrick.

The area close to Escrick boasts some of the best gardens including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave are great places to visit near Escrick if you like ancient sites.

Escrick History

There are some historic monuments around Escrick:

• York prebendary manor moated site, 300m north west of Hawthorn Farm
• Danes Hills square barrow cemetery, 300m south of Adamson Farm
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• Danes Hills square barrow cemetery on Crook Moor
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 830m south east of Adamson Farm
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 800m south east of Adamson Farm
• World War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's Plantation
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 810m south of Skipwith Church
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 690m north west of Horseshoe Pond
• York Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemetery
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• The Abbot's Staithes
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark
• Moated site and fishpond 140m south of St Helen's Church
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• St Mary's Abbey
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• Siwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington Hill
• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system